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CHINOOK CONSULTING SERVICES Ltd.
742 Memorial Drive NW Calgary, Alberta T2N 3C7
CHINOOK CONSULTING SERVICES
Wellsite Geologists Calgary Alberta
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3C 2G3
Office: 403 242 1522
CHINOOK CONSULTING SERVICES Ltd.
Description
- Specializing in operations geology and wellsite supervision
In today's busy oil and gas industry, finding a reliable, dependable geologist is not always easy. At Chinook Consulting we specialize in providing superior professional wellsite and operations geologists that cater to your specific needs.
Whether you need a wellsite geologist in the field or in the office, or you're organizing and staffing large programs and projects, Chinook Consulting can offer a variety of experienced geologists that are eager to get the job done.
Chinook carries a $5,000,000 General Liability Insurance policy, in addition to medical and SOS insurance for all of our people. In addition, all our representatives of Chinook have valid H2S, First Aid and WHMIS certifications and are available immediately for any geological needs you may have.
Chinook Consulting Services (2004) Ltd. incorporates health, safety and environmental (HSE) excellence as a core value.
Services
Chinook Consulting began operations in spring of 2002 to provide superior geological services to the oil and gas industry. Since that time, we have grown at a controlled pace, with our primary focus being to provide the best possible wellsite geology service without compromising the health and safety of all field staff. We are very proud of our safety record, with no on the job injuries to date. Chinook Consulting is a member of both Canada HSE and ISN health and safety registries, and we have WCB accounts in British Columbia and Alberta.
In the past eight years, our company has grown so that we may now offer thirty five experienced geologists, with a vast cumulative experience that covers the entire Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, from the Canadian Rockies Foothills faulted gas reservoirs to heavy oil plays in North-Eastern Alberta and Saskatchewan. We have gone from start up company to preferred contractor on some very high profile projects, including 2 wildcat wells in the Aquitaine Basin in France, and an onshore exploratory program in Qatar. In addition to these high profile international projects, we have extensive experience across Western Canada, with an empasis on unconventional resource plays such as the Horn River and the Montney play. We treat every project, whether it is a 200m vertical well or a 4500m wildcat drill, with the utmost level of care and diligence.
The Horn River play is one of the latest grand resource plays to emerge in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Following in the footsteps of such shale gas plays as the Barnett, Antrim and Caney Shale, the Horn River discovery lead to a surge in land sales in remote north-eastern British Columbia. Mineral rights for more than a million acres were secured by oil and gas companies in the last few years.
While the presence of natural gas in this stratigraphical unit was known for decades, it took recent technological advances to make this play economical, allowing operators to extract hydrocarbons from the shale. Horizontal drilling allows boreholes to open up more reservoir; multi well pad drilling minimizes the environmental impact; invert mud keeps open holes under control. Multi-stage fracturing, a process that cracks up the rock by shooting high pressure water and sand into the formation, opens new permeable conduits in the otherwise tight formation. The thickness of the shale stack makes this an ideal candidate for multi-stage fracturing.
Large quantities of natural gas are present in various horizons of the Horn River Formation. Commercial quantities of gas can be extracted from the Muskwa shale, Otterpark Member or Evie Member. Natural gas reserve estimates vary from 100 to 600 trillion cubic feet, twice to ten times higher than reserves of the Montney Play, which is successfully drilled south of the Horn River Basin. Ten to twenty percent of the gas can be recovered with current technology.
Chinook Consulting assists oil and gas companies with field and office geological supervision of operations pertaining to all areas of the Horn River Basin. Several of our wellsite geologists are specialized in this particular play. Well positioned since the discovery of this play, our company amassed solid expertise and detailed knowledge related to the challenging geology and complex drilling process of the Horn River Shale.
Two years ago, the Cardium Formation in central Alberta was stale and tired, with well known areas drilled to exhaustion, and fringes deemed un-economic. Today, thanks in large part to new technologies that include horizontal drilling and multi-stage fracturing ("multistage horizontals", as nonsensical as it sounds, is becoming a mainstream term), the Cardium is once more at the centre of Alberta's recovering energy sector. Drilling in the woods
The Pembina field is one of Alberta's most mature fields. It emerged in the late 1950s and became the largest onshore field by area in the 1960s. The Cardium Formation stood at the center of this oil field, as it has outstanding storage properties, the thick overlaying shales of the Wapiabi and Muskiki Formation ensure stratigraphic traps, while dark underlying shales act as source rocks. 221 million m³ of crude oil and 30.8 million m³ natural gas were produced between 1953 and 2008 from the Cardium Formation.
Enhanced recovery operations including water and CO2 flood schemes were tried in the water free Cardium sand. However, it was horizontal drilling combined with multi-stage fracturing stimulation techniques that dramatically increase the recovery factor. Flaring gas
A host of junior and mid sized oil and gas companies applied the new drilling technologies (proven already in high profile plays such as the Montney, Horn River and Bakken) to the Pembina Cardium. In secrecy at first, the new trend spread like wildfire within a year, with more and more operators embracing the idea as oil prices stay relatively high; the play extends well outside of the Pembina field, towards the distal reaches of the Cardium fairway, from the Deep Basin in the north-west, south towards Calgary and east past Edmonton.
The Cardium Formation is by no means a singular case. Other plays re-opened on large scale by multi-stage fracs in horizontal wellpaths include the shallow Notikewin, Glauconite sandstone and Viking Formation, with smaller scale schemes in the Falher, Cadotte, Wilrich, Dunvegan and even Nordegg. Many other niche plays are sure to follow.
Chinook Consulting assists oil and gas companies with field and office geological supervision of operations pertaining to all areas of the Cardium Fairway. Several of our wellsite geologists are specialized in this particular play. Our company has solid expertise related to the specific drilling process of the Cardium play. References:
* Lexicon of Canadian Geologic Units.
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